Knowra Snooker Snooker Snooker is a cue sport played on a large pocketed table with a white cue ball, 15 red balls, and six colored balls. Players score by potting reds and colors in sequence, then clearing the colors in order.
Snooker rules : The regulations governing snooker’s scoring, turns, fouls, and match procedures. They define the red-and-color sequence and penalties that structure every frame.
Cue sports : Games played by striking balls with a tapered stick called a cue, usually on a cloth-covered table. Snooker belongs to this wider family of table games.
British Army in India : The military forces of the British Empire stationed in India during the colonial period. British officers in India developed the game from existing billiards traditions.
World Snooker Championship : The leading annual professional snooker tournament, staged at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield since 1977. It is the sport’s most prestigious title and its defining long-format event.
Pool (cue sport) : A family of pocket billiards games, including eight-ball and nine-ball, played on smaller tables with different ball sets. Pool shares pockets and cues with snooker but uses different rules and equipment.
Snooker ball values : The points assigned to the red and six colored balls in snooker. Their different values determine which color is worth potting after each red.
Snooker table : A large rectangular table with six pockets, cloth, cushions, and a marked baulk area used for snooker. Its size and pocket geometry shape the game’s demanding positional play.
Neville Chamberlain (British Army officer) : A British Army officer associated with the creation of snooker at Jubbulpore in 1875. He is credited with adding colored balls to a billiards game that became snooker.
World Snooker Tour : The professional circuit of ranking and invitational snooker tournaments. It organizes the elite competitive calendar and determines rankings.
Carom billiards : A cue sport played on a pocketless table, where scoring depends on the cue ball contacting other balls and cushions. Its pocketless table makes the scoring objective fundamentally different from snooker.
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